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Caballero Aguila Street PaintingStreet painting photos of 'Caballero Aguila' at Festival Bella Via 08 in Monterrey, Mexico. The street painting was created by the team of Cuong Nguyen, Anthony Cappetto, and Marina Escamilla, as a tribute to Mexican artist Jesus Helguera, who created the original art in 1956.

Artisphere International Arts Festival 2008 Photo Album3-D street painting 'Koi Pond' from Rod Tryon and traditional 2D reproduction of 'Mount Parnassus' by street painting artist Hani Shihada.
The street paintings were created for the Artisphere International Arts festival in Greeenville, South Carolina from April 18th through April 20th , 2008.

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May 01, 2017

Hi from Belmar NJ where we did a quick but fun 3D street painting for the Belmar ArtWalk 2017 on April 29th.

Not our typical size or time to finish but definitely bright and electric colors and opportunity to do some art in our tri state area around New York City.

It was a beautiful day for street painting as I did a small for me (five by eight foot) 3D of three brightly colored fish swimming around - but not in - a fishbowl tus the name for the piece ' Inside Out Fishbowl'...

A fun one day piece and the weather was great!

Finished in early afternoon - Then came the pictures and another fun artwork. Look forward to summer street paintings to share locally with our communities in the tri state area around NYC.

September 13, 2013

Art for After Hours is pleased and honored to present
‘Liberty Tree’ a 3D illusionary design by internationally recognized 3D 4D
Chalk Artist Anthony Cappetto and the team of Wendy Stum and new team member Holland
Waters Winslow.

In the spirit of the historic theme of the Liberty Tree in
which the famous quotation by Thomas Jefferson stated:

“The tree of liberty
must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

We intend to ignore the tyrants completely. We strive to honor and respect our patriots
fully and completely in this artwork which will measure 15 by 30 feet in size.

Upon completion of our piece, we invite those who have are
serving, have served, or those who have loved ones who gave their lives for
this country to chalk their names on the leaves of the Liberty Tree.

When we run out of leaves, people can write those names at
the base of the artwork as well.

Art for After Hours, founded in 2001 by Anthony Cappetto, an
internationally known 3D 4D Chalk Artist and Wendy Stum has been honored to
bring exhibition class 3D illusionary designs to the Sarasota Chalk Festival
since 2010.

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are co-founders of Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc. a 3D 4D street painting art media and services company founded in 2007; bloggers for 'Blog Now on streetpainting.tv'. Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized 3D 4D chalk artist and the founder of Art for After Hours, the first commercial 3d street painting art company bringing the 3D chalk art form to corporate and exhibition clients worldwide since 2001.

February 04, 2013

Wendy and I here at Blog Now on streetpainting.tv have learned about the Italian Family Festa in Talahassee, FL and wish to tell you a little bit about it... Check it out this April!

Here are some thoughts from the Italian Family Festival Directors Blog Now is happy to share with our readers - enjoy!

Elizabeth Ricci and
Shelley Duke are the Executive Directors of Italian Family Festa, Inc.
As two Italian Americans, they decided to start a local Italian club in
Tallahassee, FL, call CIAO! (Capital Italian American Organ.) in order to
promote positive Italian and Italian American images. In their words below:

"With some of the negative stereotypes that we see on tv, we
thought it would be important for our young daughters to see what real Italian
culture looks like. A few years later, we decided to try our hands at bringing
the Florida Panhandle's first large Italian Family Festa! The Festa has grown over
the past three years and last year we decided to incorporate a new cultural
aspect to the Festival by having a "Madonnari" sidewalk chalk
contest. The response was huge! We featured Jennifer Chaparro's work over that weekend. Festa goers from as far away as Georgia, the FL beaches, Jacksonville
and Alabama came to our regional Festival to try their hand at winning prize
money! We had an Italian theme for the Madonnari artwork last year. This year's
theme for our Festival is "A Venetian Voyage" and the artists will be
creating works based off of this theme! We are excited about promoting this art
and educating the public on the beautiful works and Italian origins of the
Madonnari street painters!"

A street painting artist from Georgia created a piece featuring the beloved character Pinnochio...

The finished street painting of Pinnochio on his way to school...

Best in Show at the 2012 - 'Pinnochio' by newcomer Lee Mobley.

We're excited about new festivals developing and making the presence known in the street painting community!

A couple of Madonnara at the Italian Family Festa...

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are bloggers and moderate 'Blog Now on streetpainting.tv' a dedicated street painting/chalk art blog started in 2007 to reach the street painting art world with interviews and news about festivals and events in a journalistic fashion. Blog Now on streetpainting.tv ia part of Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc.

January 18, 2013

Hi Everyone from Anthony and Wendy at Blog Now on streetpainting.tv. The word 'Grazie' in the street painting art community means an annual event (street painting art competition) held annually in August, drawing the best artists in the street painting world to create beautiful art at the Sanctuary during the Feast of the Assumption. We are happy and honored to share some historical background offered to us by Bishop Egidio Caporello on the Grazie International Street Painting Competition, the oldest modern street painting competition held each year in Grazie, Italy as well as a series of new events for readers to look forward to this year. Here are some notes from the Bishop for our readers. Enjoy.

History

The story of
street-painting in Grazie starts in 1973, when Gilberto Boschesi, researcher of
folk costumes and traditions, decided to give recognition and value to the art of
Madonnari, who had always been present at the fair of Grazie, individually and
spontaneously.

Madonnaro Straccetto (above): An inspiration to Madonnari, and street painters worldwide. He is missed and remembered by all.

On August
15, 1973, for the first time public authorities and associations called
together in the courtyard of the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin the so-called
"Pavement painters". On that occasion a group of journalists and art
critics, such as Enzo Tortora, gave them a more appropriate title that of
"Madonnari", as the folk tradition called painters and peddlers of
sacred images. That title suited with their characteristic painting popular sacred
images of Christian inspiration, with simple colored chalks, predominantly on
the pavement of the church squares and sanctuaries during religious feasts,
fairs and festivals. The meeting and the pictorial competition, which determine
who can claim the title of "Master Madonnaro" and offer the winner
for one year, the trophy of Madonnaro, takes place every year on August 15, the
feast of the Assumption, in the context of the ancient Fair which has been held
in the same place since the foundation of the Sanctuary (1399).

The event was
recognized by the President of the Italian Republic and by the President of the
Region Lombardy. The Ministry of Culture was interested in it in order to
safeguard an expression of folk art in danger of extinction. At the beginning,
few Madonnari attended the competition, but over the years, they reached over
200 and among them there were many foreigners: Europeans, Americans, and
Japanese. There is a significant presence of women. The event, which over the
years has become an international art festival, was publicized by the national
and international press and documented by Italian television networks, by the
"Associated Press", by "National Geographic" and by “ABC
". In August it becomes a most unique outdoor laboratory.

This is a
display of skill and creativity vanishing after a few days or even a few hours,
when the rain falls; it is an example of ephemeral art that can be fixed only
through the camera lens. The fair attracts in Grazie every year from one
hundred to two hundred thousand people in 2 or 3 days. The festival begins on
the night of August 14th, when, after the blessing of the chalk by the Bishop
of Mantua, artists begin to paint and ends August 15 in the evening, with the
jury's verdict.

The Madonnari
were organized in association with the official name of AMI: Madonnaris’
Italian Association. Later on, they formed many other groups under various
names. Now the CIM: Italian Centre of Madonnari has the task of saving the
correspondence, the pictures and other material documenting the history, besides
all, files with the names of competitors over the years, and also some
significant chalk works for various periods to compare the evolution of
"manners" to paint, the various masters who have come and gone over
time, leaving evidence of an ancient but always present art, which is a
spontaneous expression of figurative aesthetic of immediate emotions.

A key
moment in the history of madonnari was the apostolic visit of Pope John Paul II
in 1991. On that occasion, eight artists, among them the great Kurt Wenner,
painted an oversized Last Judgment of Michelangelo, 81 square meters of art, to
welcome the Pope, who signed it with his own autograph using a white chalk. Now
the asphalt fragment with the Pope’s authentic signature is preserved in the
Sanctuary.

The Papal Signature on display

'The Last Judgement' as a welcome for Pope John Paul II in 1991.

In May
2011, twenty years after that extraordinary event, the Madonnari were invited
to paint a religious subject on the courtyard and it was a masterpiece.

Nowadays

Picking up
a widespread and instinctive idea to give continuity to a similar experience, a
few months ago, I launched the proposal not to limit the presence of madonnari
to the competition in August, but to extend it to the whole year.

Consequently,
in respect of the Year of Faith, proclaimed by the Pope Benedict XVI, together
with local authorities, we decided to organize a series of events:

1. An
exhibition of cribs and Nativities for Christmas,

2. An
exhibition of paintings, sculptures and chalk panels for Easter on the theme
“Crucifixion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ”,

3. an
exhibition in May with the whole village decorated with paintings and flowers,

4. the
traditional competition in August.

In December
we were really surprised by the solidarity of artists (madonnari, painters and
sculptors) and by the enthusiasm of the local population who accepted our
proposal with joy and emotion. The free service of volunteers gave a precious
contribution to the success of the initiative. Developing the experience of this
exhibition, we are thinking of Easter and hope to achieve the same result as
Christmas.

Grazie is a
very nice little village of about 600 inhabitants, on the lake of Mantua. The
most important monument and centre of it is the catholic Sanctuary dedicated to
the Virgin Mary with its large square and its fascinating artistic elements
(statues, chapels, votive symbols, etc.).

The
Madonnari who come here from all over the world breathe the atmosphere pervading
this enchanting place. Here, everything is religion and only religious subjects
can be painted, nothing else. The Madonnari are perfectly
conscious of this peculiarity. While painting, they won’t be
disturbed because they’re praying. Here painting becomes a form of prayer. It
is a deep, high, absolute, joyful prayer.

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are bloggers of Blog Now on streetpainting.tv and co-founders of Innovative Street Painting Group, a street painting art and media company bringing the art form to a new generation of artists, festivals, directors and fans worldwide. #Blognowonstreetpaintingtv

January 17, 2013

Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is getting out there and reaching out to street painting (chalk art) festival and event directors to bring the art to our readers. We just had a chat with Jim Barton, director.

Please share with Blog Now on streetpainting.tv
readers about the Uptown Art Expo back-story and recent event.

The Uptown Art Expo is now in our 2nd
year at beautiful Cranes Roost Park in Altamonte Springs, Florida which is just
north of Orlando. Our festival was located previously in Downtown Orlando for 7
years. This year the art & music
festival will be held on Feb 16-17th. The free festival includes
over 130 art exhibitors from around the country and concerts with Marty Balin
of Jefferson Airplane and Firefall.

How did you get interested in bringing the
chalk art component to the Uptown Art Expo?

After seeing chalk artists at the
Festival of the Masters which is an art festival at Disney World and the chalk
art festival in Sarasota, Florida. Visually it was just amazing what these
chalk artist create and we had to add this excitement to our festival.

Is this the first year for chalk? If not, lets
look at some of the work.

This will be our third year of our chalk
street painting competition. Here are some of the photos from last year’s
competition.

What is the chalk art plan for this year?

The Expo will feature 25 chalk artists in
this year. We have been reaching out to let the Chalk Art Community know about
our festival. Learning more about the different websites that promote chalk art
and requesting that our festival be included in their listings. We have line-up
some amazing new artists for this year’s festival and will be excited to see
them in action.

Also, we have increased our awards for the chalk artists. This year the Expo
will present cash prizes and ribbons for:

Is the community excited? How will you bring
the community to socially invest in the chalk art, activities, reaching out,
etc.?

Last year we arranged for Chalk Artists
Ron Hawkins and Carolyn Schultz to chalk live in front of the Fox 35 Studios.
The Station broadcasted them live during the morning show as they created a
masterpiece of the stations Good Day morning show logo.

Our festival attendees just love the art
work that is created and its heart warming to see all the children try their
talents with what I call their refrigerator art in a section nearby.

Anything that we are missing but would be great
to add to the post…

I am just pleased to work with and create
an event which provides a venue for such amazing talent.

And we are too! Watch for more posts from Blog Now on streetpainting.tv!

January 04, 2013

Happy New Year from Wendy and I at Blog Now on streetpainting.tv! We are very excited about 2013 in terms of the festivals and events for the street painting community and are sharing what we are seeing. stay tuned on developments for these festivals, events, and sharing of pictures from our experiences over the years.

We are particularly happy to see the return of one of our favorite street painting festivals, albeit in a new form - The festival is now Italian Street Painting Marin, scheduled for June 29th and 30th, 2013, led by Festival Director Sue Carlomagno! As a historical note, it is at the former Youth in Arts Italian Street Painting Festival in which I street painted for the very first time in 2001, and we see where that has led as a street painting artist! Again very happy to see these developments and hope to be sharing more about the Festival with our readers during 2013!

Blog Now on streetpainting.tv has learned of the developing Blumberg Street Art Festival in Blumberg, Germany, scheduled for July 13th and 14th 2013. More on the festival as information comes in...

The Fourth Street Painting Festival in Toulon, France will be on May 25th and 26th, 2013 at the Place D'Armes. Blog Now encourages the public in these locations to stop by and experience the beauty and artistic challenge that is street painting, and of course to pin what you see on our new pinterest site coming on line next week. And of course visit us on Facebook and Twitter.

And a look back at some Festivals in 2012...

Grazie:

Grazie, the first modern street painting festival celbrated its 40th Anniversary, a nexus for the etire street painting worldwide community.

...Street painting at the top of the mountain the challenge of opening a new cultural space, can be said that it was a challenge to overcome. Street painting between the Sun and the clouds, framed by the Sierra Madre, the Cerro de las Mitras, the Cerro del Topo and our flagship Cerro de la Silla. It has been a unique experience, and perhaps even repeatable.

This experience, Festival Bella Via, reaffirms as a cultural gesture, and socially strengthens as a formative activity, and service vocation to the citizen.

During the two days of the realization, we were visited by around 20,000 spectators, who came to live the already traditional ephemeral art of the FBV. To the beating of drums, and our flag (Mexico) hoisted, the soil of the Esplanade from the viewpoint of the bishopric, was covered with art centenary art madonnari...

September 12, 2012

I just got back from a week of bringing the concepts of 3D chalk art to students and faculty at the Universidad de La Republica in Montevideo, Uruguay. The experience was great!

Here I am sitting on the stone bridge of my 3D chalk art demonstration piece that I did for our group exhibition. We're indoors as (for our northern hemisphere readers) its the closing of winter here and the temperature and the forecast for intermittent rain played a big factor in location.

I gave a lecture and hands on workshops to a very interested and talented group of students and faculty, eager to learn and grow their appreciation and experience in creating their 3D chalk art works.

Here are some examples of the first 3D chalk art works:

The students did a great job coming up with conceptual, engaging pieces with a small work size and shorter time to finish them! Lots more 3D chalk art from Uruguay to come!

Here are some photos interacting on my 3D chalk piece - Enjoy!

The class picture: Here we are interacting with the 3D chalk art - some (left) interacting more than others... :D! I had a great time working with everyone at the Universidad. A special thanks to the US Embassy in Montevideo, the Espacio Arte Contemporaneo, Infantozzi, and my friends at the Universidad de la Republica. Looking forward to coming back to Uruguay soon!

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are bloggers at Blog Now on streetpainting.tv, a street painting art themed blog reaching out to street painting (chalk) artists, festival directors, and fans throughout the world with posts presented in a journalistic fashion. Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is part of the street painting/chalk art media company Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc. founded in 2007 by Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum to bring 3D/AR chalk art festivals and media to the new generation of artists, festival directors and fans worldwide.

July 12, 2012

Here we are (although in Mexico in 2010) with Joelle Tabournel, Festival Director of the Toulon Street Painting Festival in Toulon, France, to share information we recieved from Joelle on the winners of this years 3rd Annual Festival. Left to right: Wendy Stum, Joelle Tabournel, and Anthony Cappetto.

Here we go... via translating software...

Quality, diversity and eclecticism were the theme of the 3rd International Festival of Street Painting Toulon whose ambition is to offer the public always more fun and excitement, to make visible artistic approaches to here and elsewhere.

The festival honored this year to Italy to discover (or rediscover) the Art of the Madonnari throughout its rich artistic and historical dimension. Among the Italian artists present, a large delegation of the Italian group ACPC, Vera Bugatti, Bruno Fabriani, Fabio Fedele, Luigi Legno, and Tony Cuboliquido.

Other highlights of the Festival, the production of frescoes realized by 3D Planet Streetpainting, a Dutch artist collective composed of Ruben Poncia, Remko van Schaik and Peter Westerink.

Revelation of the Festival, Cristian Truca, Romanian artist, who has noted the public Toulon with a work he admits 3D in mind, not a piece of paper, inspiration unfolds over the creative process and participatory with spectators.

To bring out new talent, the Festival offered again this year, a drawing contest.

Awards 2012

Special Prize International - 1st prize Vera Bugatti (Italy)

- 2nd Prize Aziz El Garoui (Morocco)

Free Prize Draw - 1st Prize Roger Boubenec (Toulon)

- 2nd Prize Hamaïda Jamila (Toulon)

On the sidelines of the Festival, Galeries Lafayette, fashion shop in Toulon, invited artists, Jamila Hamaïda, Jean-Marc and Jean-Marc Navello Tedone to invest in store windows for a performance "live" under the sign fashion through three different artistic worlds.

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are bloggers for Blog Now on streetpainting.tv, a dedicated blog for street painting and chalk art festival directors, artists and the fans throughout the world presented in a journalistic manner since 2007. Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is a part of Innovative Street painting Group, Inc. www.ispg-inc.com. @Blog_Now, @Blog_Now on SPTV, @ISPG.

June 21, 2012

Today we have the latest from chalk artist Steven Platt who was just at the Arts Alive Street Painting Festival in Mission Viejo, CA.

Steve was one of 87 artists who participated in the Arts Alive Festival in Mission Viejo, CA May 5-6th. The theme was animation and the 50’s, so Steve devised a scene from War of the Worlds, Batman & Robin from the era, a Newman sculpture for the hood ornament, and the best car ever made- a 1956 Chevy Bel Air. This of course being special to him as he was born in 1956 - his report not ours ;). This is framed by a 50’s- style TV.

All the above being our adaptation of Steve's paraphrase from his event experience. Here is the artwork, enjoy all!

Street Painting Art by Steven Platt.

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are the bloggers for Blog Now on streetpainting.tv, bringing interviews, posts, and the latest from street painting festival directors and artists for the fans who follow the growing art form. Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is part of Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc., www.ispg-inc.com

June 20, 2012

As the street painting art season is on, we are sharing images from some of our favorite artists form around the world.

Here we have the first street painting this year from madonnaro Joel Yau from California. Joel reproduced an artwork by Gil Elvgren (below):

Looks great Joel! See more of Joel's work when he travels to New Paltz, NY to the Hudson Valley Chalk Art Festival, July 20th through July 22nd.

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are the bloggers for Blog Now on streetpainting.tv, bringing interviews, posts, and the latest from street painting festival directors and artists for the fans who follow the growing art form. Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is part of Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc., www.ispg-inc.com